Miami, United States
Hurricane Larry continues to strengthen south of the Cape Verde Islands in Africa, and is expected to become a higher-grade hurricane on Friday as it heads west through open Atlantic waters.
The system has sustained maximum winds of 80 mph (130 km / h), With stronger gusts, and is located on the eastern Atlantic, 1,235 kilometers (765 miles) from the southern tip of the Cape Verde Islands.
Larry is moving west at a speed of 30 km / h (18 mph) and is “likely to become a large, powerful hurricane,” meteorologists warned. American National Hurricane Center (NHC).
They forecast continued movement westward through Thursday, followed by a gradual shift west-northwest next week. Larry’s hurricane-force winds extend up to 35 kilometers (25 miles) from the center. point out the NHC in its most recent bulletin.
The Miami-based NHC predicts that Larry “will continue to strengthen rapidly in the coming days,” so he could become a major hurricane on Friday (3, 4 or 5 on the scale of Saffir-Simpson intensity, of a maximum of 5).
the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (NOAA) predicts that the current cyclonic season in the Atlantic will have above-average activity. So far this year, 5 hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic basin -Elsa, Grace, Henri, Ida and now Larry-, of which Grace and Ida reached the category of major.